29 Mar 2024
Thursday 15 May 2014 - 16:32
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Iranian women theological students pay first visit to the US

Iranian women theological students pay first visit to the US
As the United States and Iran sat down in Vienna to begin drafting a long-term nuclear agreement, an exchange of another kind was playing out in and around a pastoral university a couple of hours from Washington.
A delegation of Iranian women students from Jamiat al-Zahra, the worlds largest theological seminary for women, is in the United States for the first time to attend lectures at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The group of nine women mostly postgraduate students in their 20s from the Iranian theological center of Qom, also visited Washington and spent a weekend in the Amish country around Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Interviewed by Al-Monitor on May 14in Washington, the young women and their escorts expressed optimism about the nuclear talks and the trajectory of US-Iran ties. They said they already knew a great deal about the United States from their studies and the media but were favorably impressed by the family values of their Mennonite hosts and especially by the simple lifestyle of the Amish.

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